Service-Oriented Computing: Oracle Application Server uses a service-oriented computing
architecture to facilitate the development of enterprise applications as business services, which
enables you to build a flexible enterprise application infrastructure.

Grid Computing: The Oracle Application Server architecture coordinates the use of
large numbers of low cost, modular servers and storage to act as one large computer to run your
enterprise applications. This allows you to start small, minimize unused resources, and add
processing or storage capacity as you need it.

Documentation

The Oracle Application Server documentation set consists of the documentation
library and platform-specific documentation.

The Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) documentation library contains administration,
configuration, and development documentation. The documentation
library is on its own CD-ROM in the Oracle Application Server CD pack.